Wow. Just WOW. You have your life right there. Good luck and we'll be watching. After you get the elevator working and all the pallet wood out you can rent out floors. Bring in some $$$
I see a great opportunity. Get the building structure inspected and then make apartments from the second floor to the sixth floor. Do what you can when you can.
It's a ton of work, but the best part is, with an initial buy-in that low, there's a lot of room for sweat equity to improve it. The best part is, you won't be fighting a leaky roof, and that is HUGE
Tony that is so awesome, YOU OWN A HUTCH SKY SCRAPER! I'm happy for you guys. Big project but it will be worth every dime, nickel and busted knuckle you put into it. Steve
Ah, too bad but probably a blessing. I'll be up in your neck of the woods some time this month. Maybe I can help wire up the elevator or just say hello.
@@HardCoreFab One thing we have done in our elevator on those type of windows, is buy sheets of the thicker plexiglass from McMaster-Carr and cut them to fit and use silicone to glue them in place. We get the almost 1/4" thick stuff.
Well of course G! Who doesn't love yoga pants? I have mine on right now. 😁 Those other ares would be awesome for a local museum or some kind of memorabilia space. Or maybe rent the spaces out for other work shop space. So friggin cool!
what a ripper, best thing would be to clear out the junk then start one room at a time. I can see many uses for all that pallet wood. You've defiantly taken on a challenge and a half tho. Looking forward to following along
The wood can be used for shelving, or fire wood, gee lot's more room, but you got a lot of wiring to do, but very useful if you get the lift you could rent some out, all the best to you and your loved ones
ambitious project for sure, I wish you luck, It would be nice to be young again & able to take on such a task. I guess I will watch you instead, thanks for sharing
You could make alot of money off of that building. There's people that buy that palette wood. Congratulations on getting that building. That's a diamond in the rough. First thing to do is get windows, electric, and the elevator fixed. Good luck and God Bless you and your family.
That looks like the building off of Ave A and Lorraine in Hutchinson, Kansas. I'm almost convinced that is the very same building you've shown in this video. Edit: That IS the very same building in Hutchinson I mentioned! I just confirmed it by comparing it to Google maps street view. I can't believe how dirt cheap that was sold for!
An awesome structure! I LOVE that you are repurposing/regenerating, rather than building new. Good on ya, brother!!! I agree, some of that graffiti is actually quite impressive! Are you going to put in an elevator that can hold heavier payload and employ more than one floor for your projects?
Congratulations that's a awesome building with a lot of cool history if you want I may be able to get up with some one that may buy those pallets from you he has a company that recycles them
could might maybe make a great penthouse apartment on the top floor would be a bitch carrying groceries up there without a elevator couple heavy coats of paint would fix the look and make it brighter too might could use all that pallet wood to do some furniture or cupboards and trim make friends with an electrician if ya dont already know one i probly talk too much
Check out "SILO ART " from here in AUSTRALIA, I'm sure there are real artists who wold like to show off their talents!!! You might even start a new craze over there.
Wow!!! That is a cool old building. You have a lot of work ahead of you but I think it will be an awesome place once completed. I look forward to seeing the progress and projects to come, good luck brother 😎👍🇺🇸🔥
Nice find Anthony. This is going to make a great shop, storage and possible rental space once it gets cleaned up. Mega work ahead, but you can do it!!!
Thought I recognized the building, used to go to college and live there. Nice to see you are cleaning up and fixing up the place. I hate seeing old buildings just rot away.
Well, congratulations and my deepest sympathies. Been there done that with a large old building. Yours is way bigger than my project but the first thing I ran into was the City. The building was in disrepair for many years, then when I purchased it the city wanted to have it all repaired immediately. The roof as yours was in need of major repair and also the windows as mine were broke out by kids also. As I was doing repairs the city didn't think I was doing it fast enough so they condemned the building. Had to hire a attorney, structural engineer and a commercial architect to do prints of the building to make it up to code. Sent 10's of thousands of dollars on those guy's instead of doing repairs. Finally got all the things done with a lot more to do. Good luck it will be great when complete. Get the elevator fixed first and sell the pallet wood off for some cash, your going to need it.
A guy in Springfield did a similar project, he ran his business on the lower level and on the upper levels he turn those into inside storage units and made a killing.
G'day Anthony, it's Mark from Australia. WOW that is a huge & exciting project, looking forward to following your adventure. Good luck & all the very best.
With the prices of building materials, I wonder what you could get for that wood. All depends what people could do with it. Maybe get the purchase price of the property back just from the wood LOL Read up on the TreatCo pet chews building that caught fire on the north side of Wichita. It was sometime in the last ten years. Burned so hot in there that it went through the concrete floor. Crazy crazy deal!
Unfortunately the wood didn't come with the building. It's just stuck there until the elevator is working again. The pics of that building look like it was built very similar to mine. That's crazy how it felled
Yuppie Condos on those top floors... "Build to suit". Their money. Their contractor. But you'll have to fix the elevator... Great building. Love to have it here.
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Those floors would make beautiful studio apartments for you and your family and your business on the first 2 floors. I would love to live on that top floor and have keyed elevator floors so that you can only go to a certain floor with a certain key. I could make that look beautiful for living and make it work with emergency stairs to . Keep up the great work and God Bless you and your family.
@@HardCoreFab reason I ask is because I I noticed some filing cabinets in a table that could be reused. I don't know if the three forklifts could be made operational again but it would probably be neat to save at least one of them. As for the old railspray you could probably get it cleared out and if any of the railroads nearby are planning to scrap some boxcars you could probably get one and put it on the old spur track to where it could be used for an extra bit of storage. But that's just an idea I had
First things first...a Bengal tiger pit to catch vandals and thieves. If those pallets had caught fire the building would not have survived. Concrete doesn't like fire...good luck with the new project.
Im thinkin retirement plan apts or your new living quarters ...but being that close to work would get old...is that wood a hard wood ?? If so im sure theres a pallet company nearby that would pay a good penny for precut lumber most of the hard wood is about 3$ a ft for a 1"x4"x40"/42" .and a2x4 is like almost 4$ a ft but that freight elevator is crucially important to get working. Good long term project
Big project, but such a cool building! Just take it one step at a time. Maybe start with securing it up, but still, lots of places where you just have to do step 1 before 32, 45, 99…
OMG that looks like a lot of work. That would eat into my RUclips watching time. But then that is your problem. Even if I was young enough to tackle it I am way too lazy - a problem I've had all my life.
Cool place .Looks like you could live on the upper floors.A little paint here and there and move in. If you run out of room there you just got to much shit.Its going to be fun.
I'm curious what your plans are for the missing and broken windows. Do you plan to simply replace the missing panes with glass that was similar to the original glass or put in something that is more efficient and possibly more resilient to vandals?
That's a good question.. At the moment I believe what we are going to do is replace it with glass and/or plexiglass pains back in the original frames. I don't foresee us having the space up above with any kind of air conditioning or heat so I think that would be fine. As far as vandals once we have lights and cameras up I think that will take care of most of that
Wow. Just WOW. You have your life right there. Good luck and we'll be watching. After you get the elevator working and all the pallet wood out you can rent out floors. Bring in some $$$
I see a great opportunity. Get the building structure inspected and then make apartments from the second floor to the sixth floor. Do what you can when you can.
I don't want to deal with the headache of apartments!
It's a ton of work, but the best part is, with an initial buy-in that low, there's a lot of room for sweat equity to improve it.
The best part is, you won't be fighting a leaky roof, and that is HUGE
It still leaks but I think it's going to be an easy fix
Flipping awesome, ( Hardcore Fab & Rods ) sign on top of building is a must
great to see your new shop !
Thanks!!!
Plenty of wood to make to clad the walls in the office an man cave ,epic building look forward to seeing the updates 🤟
Excited for the progress mate.
Tony that is so awesome, YOU OWN A HUTCH SKY SCRAPER! I'm happy for you guys. Big project but it will be worth every dime, nickel and busted knuckle you put into it. Steve
Thanks!
And it looks like you have a 61 year supply of fire wood for that kewl fire place!
Wood is going to go back to the guy I bought it from at some point
Ah, too bad but probably a blessing. I'll be up in your neck of the woods some time this month. Maybe I can help wire up the elevator or just say hello.
Love the new property.
I didn’t know you were from Hutchinson! Saw the story in the paper today! Really excited to see you transform this building on my visits home!
Right on! So Hutch is home where are you at now!
Bigger shop means “ more stuff “ 👍
and bigger projects LOL
I’m excited to see your visions come to life!
It is magnificent.
Congratulations! Can't wait to see how this all turns out for ya!
Thanks!
@@HardCoreFab you're welcome!
Very cool!
Now I know what prompted the getting rid of the milling equipment.
Hopefully our mills will put it to good use.
Good luck on your new adventure!
Thanks man!
@@HardCoreFab One thing we have done in our elevator on those type of windows, is buy sheets of the thicker plexiglass from McMaster-Carr and cut them to fit and use silicone to glue them in place. We get the almost 1/4" thick stuff.
That is more than likely what we will be doing.
That there is where i worked 24 yrs ago as a pallet company i broke my back had surgery! But i know alot bout that place!
Well of course G! Who doesn't love yoga pants? I have mine on right now. 😁
Those other ares would be awesome for a local museum or some kind of memorabilia space. Or maybe rent the spaces out for other work shop space. So friggin cool!
We are right down the street from the Reno County Museum, but we are planning on displaying the 'artifacts' we find.
If I was your age I'd love the challenge - good luck.
Thank you!
Nice place!! really hard to believe you only paid a grand for it, great score man congrats 👏 👍!!
Will make an awesome 👌 shop
We are excited for it!
that's really cool I would live there
Me to but Julie said no LOL
Gee all that pallet wood just waiting to be recycled into wall coverings or furniture. Waiting to see the new premises evolve into your set up.
Nice project
Thanks
what a ripper, best thing would be to clear out the junk then start one room at a time. I can see many uses for all that pallet wood. You've defiantly taken on a challenge and a half tho. Looking forward to following along
Thanks for watching!
Plexy glass is your friend. Its what we use at the grain elevators. In hutch
Hey from Canada ont
Hey!!!
I always wondered what it looked like in there. I always thought it would be a good building for a bar, lol.
Good investment,you have a lot of fire wood for your fireplace.
Thanks!
The wood can be used for shelving, or fire wood, gee lot's more room, but you got a lot of wiring to do, but very useful if you get the lift you could rent some out, all the best to you and your loved ones
Thanks!
That's going to be a lot of work. But it will be cool when you are done 👍👍🇨🇱
Yes and Yes!!
Google street view is interesting and apropos. Look to the north on Lorraine about a block or so.
You caught the Hookers and Blow drive by! We were hoping that would publish!
Great to be young and full of energy and great ideas 🥰 good luck on this new adventure 👍
ambitious project for sure, I wish you luck, It would be nice to be young again & able to take on such a task. I guess I will watch you instead, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching
You could make alot of money off of that building. There's people that buy that palette wood. Congratulations on getting that building. That's a diamond in the rough. First thing to do is get windows, electric, and the elevator fixed. Good luck and God Bless you and your family.
Thanks! Unfortunately I don't get to keep the wood when I get the elevator working the guy I bought the building from gets that back
Good luck with the new project. I know it going to be awesome when you get it done.
Thanks!
Make the top floor the crows nest! LOL!
How to get it up there LOL
That looks like the building off of Ave A and Lorraine in Hutchinson, Kansas. I'm almost convinced that is the very same building you've shown in this video.
Edit: That IS the very same building in Hutchinson I mentioned! I just confirmed it by comparing it to Google maps street view. I can't believe how dirt cheap that was sold for!
Yeah that is the one
I was going to suggest renting the other floors for storage to local companies. But that town is so small that may not be possible. Ron
Yeah I'm not sure I could find anyone for that but you never know
That's a huge project but definitely cool! get that elevator fixed you could lease the out other floors!
An awesome structure! I LOVE that you are repurposing/regenerating, rather than building new. Good on ya, brother!!!
I agree, some of that graffiti is actually quite impressive!
Are you going to put in an elevator that can hold heavier payload and employ more than one floor for your projects?
It would be awesome but for now I'm going to be happy with just having the main floor usable.
@@HardCoreFab Here’s to dreams and schemes! Good luck with everything.
Love it congrats!
* * * * Check with the local woodworkers , much of that pallet wood is probably Oak , and salvageable , and Ash , etc. , ..
Congratulations that's a awesome building with a lot of cool history if you want I may be able to get up with some one that may buy those pallets from you he has a company that recycles them
Thanks but the guy that we bought the building from is going to get the wood back after I get the elevator fixed
@@HardCoreFab nice one less headache to have to deal with
That's a very cool project. It appears to have good bones. How many square feet is it in total?
Thanks! Not sure if you count the basement in something like this but I so 30k ish
Is that a Brady piece on the wall!?
Maybe
How did you find a building at that price? It’s awesome
Right place right time and some luck I guess
could might maybe make a great penthouse apartment on the top floor would be a bitch carrying groceries up there without a elevator couple heavy
coats of paint would fix the look and make it brighter too might could use all that pallet wood to do some furniture or cupboards and trim make friends with an electrician if ya dont already know one
i probly talk too much
Holy s#*} son you didn’t get a bite you got a whole freaking belly full. But what a cool old building. Good luck.
LOL Thanks!
Flat landscape 😂 again good luck 🍀👍
Thanks!
Beware the wandering hobo!!
😆
Check out "SILO ART " from here in AUSTRALIA, I'm sure there are real artists who wold like to show off their talents!!!
You might even start a new craze over there.
Ok, now I have a new item in my bucket list 'Australian silo tour'
Hope you will include the shop build in your videos. Plenty of room to make a loft style living area for yall as well.
Wow!!! That is a cool old building. You have a lot of work ahead of you but I think it will be an awesome place once completed.
I look forward to seeing the progress and projects to come, good luck brother 😎👍🇺🇸🔥
Thanks!
Nice find Anthony. This is going to make a great shop, storage and possible rental space once it gets cleaned up. Mega work ahead, but you can do it!!!
Thought I recognized the building, used to go to college and live there. Nice to see you are cleaning up and fixing up the place. I hate seeing old buildings just rot away.
I drive by that building every day. I’m glad it’s going to be saved and turned into something useful.
Well, congratulations and my deepest sympathies. Been there done that with a large old building. Yours is way bigger than my project but the first thing I ran into was the City. The building was in disrepair for many years, then when I purchased it the city wanted to have it all repaired immediately. The roof as yours was in need of major repair and also the windows as mine were broke out by kids also. As I was doing repairs the city didn't think I was doing it fast enough so they condemned the building. Had to hire a attorney, structural engineer and a commercial architect to do prints of the building to make it up to code. Sent 10's of thousands of dollars on those guy's instead of doing repairs. Finally got all the things done with a lot more to do. Good luck it will be great when complete. Get the elevator fixed first and sell the pallet wood off for some cash, your going to need it.
I'm hoping the city won't be hard to deal with. Over the past few years they have became more friendly to businesses in our town I fill.
@@HardCoreFab Plus there was already someone operating out of there so that might be to your advantage. Good luck, buddy!
Wow Anthony you have found a gem there.can’t wait to follow the real estate, And shop build journey.
A guy in Springfield did a similar project, he ran his business on the lower level and on the upper levels he turn those into inside storage units and made a killing.
That's an Idea
Street rod nationals are in 2 weeks in Springfield.
G'day Anthony, it's Mark from Australia. WOW that is a huge & exciting project, looking forward to following your adventure. Good luck & all the very best.
Thanks 👍
You paid 1K for a Flour Mill? where in the world are you? Detroit? If you're close i have materials I can donate.
Oh by the way. Can sell that lumber for a good amount. But I'm sure you know that. And you're in Kansas, bummer.
Cool stuff!
Lots of income streams possible here... Fab shop, Haunted house, etc LOL
Can not wait to see it come together.
BAAAAADD-AAAAASSSSS Purchase Brother ‼️‼️ May God Bless You With Your New Indeavors In This Property.🤗🤗🤗, Gary.
Thank you!
You're Very Welcome Brother 🤗
With the prices of building materials, I wonder what you could get for that wood. All depends what people could do with it. Maybe get the purchase price of the property back just from the wood LOL
Read up on the TreatCo pet chews building that caught fire on the north side of Wichita. It was sometime in the last ten years. Burned so hot in there that it went through the concrete floor. Crazy crazy deal!
Unfortunately the wood didn't come with the building. It's just stuck there until the elevator is working again. The pics of that building look like it was built very similar to mine. That's crazy how it felled
Yuppie Condos on those top floors... "Build to suit". Their money. Their contractor. But you'll have to fix the elevator... Great building. Love to have it here.
Very interesting Anthony!
How very cool is this?.!!!...Been wondering what has been happening over there!...Very great adventure!
Congrats! Looking forward to following your dreams!
$o cool. I can’t wait to $ee the video$ of the tran$formation. I gue$$ the fir$t thing i$ to $ecure the building $o improvment$ don’t get ruined/$tolen. I can’t help but the think about the money 💵 that will need to be $pent. I $ee you buying ton$ of pizza for your friend$ who help.
Those floors would make beautiful studio apartments for you and your family and your business on the first 2 floors. I would love to live on that top floor and have keyed elevator floors so that you can only go to a certain floor with a certain key. I could make that look beautiful for living and make it work with emergency stairs to . Keep up the great work and God Bless you and your family.
That’s an awesome new “ Hardcore Fab Shop World Headquarters “. Can’t wait to see what you do with it.
Totally cool! Awesome building! That top floor would be a great house! ✊😁
If theres any original stuff inside like old furniture, lockers, etc do you think you could you try to save it ?
We will 100% save anything we can!
@@HardCoreFab reason I ask is because I I noticed some filing cabinets in a table that could be reused.
I don't know if the three forklifts could be made operational again but it would probably be neat to save at least one of them.
As for the old railspray you could probably get it cleared out and if any of the railroads nearby are planning to scrap some boxcars you could probably get one and put it on the old spur track to where it could be used for an extra bit of storage.
But that's just an idea I had
Abandoned building windows, the original Make a Wish ! Old is new again building style.
You deserve a new shop and you stole that one but you will spend a fortune on it fixing it you, how ever you have endless choices of what to do.
Man would it not be cool to make some loft type apartments and condos Imagine having a Party hang out spot on the roof
That would be killer!
that one building with the elevator ever think about loft apartment? income!
Why can't you open up those side doors drive in that way, all the best to you and your loved ones
Awesome Anthony can't wait till you get started!
Very soon!
gee... cool building even comes with fire wood...
Congrats on your newest project Anthony. Looking forward to your next video where you start cleaning up the building and grounds.
I have and I think I will pass
First things first...a Bengal tiger pit to catch vandals and thieves. If those pallets had caught fire the building would not have survived. Concrete doesn't like fire...good luck with the new project.
Haha
Im thinkin retirement plan apts or your new living quarters ...but being that close to work would get old...is that wood a hard wood ?? If so im sure theres a pallet company nearby that would pay a good penny for precut lumber most of the hard wood is about 3$ a ft for a 1"x4"x40"/42" .and a2x4 is like almost 4$ a ft but that freight elevator is crucially important to get working. Good long term project
Probably the rest of my live project. LOL
pent house suite heck yeah!!!
Big project, but such a cool building! Just take it one step at a time. Maybe start with securing it up, but still, lots of places where you just have to do step 1 before 32, 45, 99…
100%
OMG that looks like a lot of work. That would eat into my RUclips watching time. But then that is your problem. Even if I was young enough to tackle it I am way too lazy - a problem I've had all my life.
It is differently going to cut into my RUclips watching time. LOL
this is great!! congrats!
Gratulations with the new place!! I found it on google street view, and you will never know who is in the picture!! Hookers and blow!! 🙂
Hahaha yep!!!
Pretty big jump.
Wow!! That is definitely alot of work. But congratulations anyhow. Can't wait to see what you turn it into
Big project but pretty exciting for you. Good luck with the renovation.
Thank you sir!
Cool place .Looks like you could live on the upper floors.A little paint here and there and move in. If you run out of room there you just got to much shit.Its going to be fun.
Challenge accepted It will be filled LOL
I'm curious what your plans are for the missing and broken windows. Do you plan to simply replace the missing panes with glass that was similar to the original glass or put in something that is more efficient and possibly more resilient to vandals?
That's a good question.. At the moment I believe what we are going to do is replace it with glass and/or plexiglass pains back in the original frames. I don't foresee us having the space up above with any kind of air conditioning or heat so I think that would be fine. As far as vandals once we have lights and cameras up I think that will take care of most of that
Anthony that is Excellent building you will be able to do a lot of good things in there and around the outside Very KOOL Good luck
Thanks!
Hey out of curiosity where do you go to find deals like this? I'm a local and a buddy and I have always wondered about that building
Just happen to ask the guy that owned it at the right time I guess
I have driven by this building a million times and always wondered what it looked like inside! Can’t wait to see how it turns out!
Same
Looks like shit
Exciting times!
Room to spread out, every Hotrodder’s dream!